Ismail Ilkan Ceylan wins Beth Dissertation Prize

Ismail Ilkan Ceylan has been awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2018 for his doctoral dissertation. The prize was awarded at a ceremony which took place at the University of Sofia during the 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2018).

The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) each year awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, named in honour of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth, to outstanding PhD theses in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Dissertations are evaluated on the basis of their technical depth, strength and originality. 

Ismail is currently a co-investigator in the EPSRC project ‘RealPDBs: Realistic Data Models and Query Compilation for Large-Scale Probabilistic Databases’ which runs from 2017 to 2021.